Hyphenate noun-plus-participle compound modifiers

Submitted by György Chityil ... on Sun, 12/02/2012 - 22:34

Language English

Hierarchy:

Part:

Sentence

Scope:

Chunk

Features:

previous.is_article && current.is_plural_noun && next.is_past_participle

Suggestion:

current.text + "-" + next.text

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Notes:

Originally /\[NP (a|an|the)_DT (\w+_NNS?) (\w+_VBN \w+_NNS?) \]/i

Description:

Noun-plus-participle compounds are hyphenated (for example, "time-consuming activity", "an activity that is time-consuming").

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